Counseling Process

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• The counselling process is a

planned, structured dialogue
between a counselor and a client
• It is a cooperative process in
which a trained professional
helps a person called the client
to identify sources of difficulties
or concerns that he or she is
experiencing.
• Together they develop ways to
deal with and overcome these
problems so that person has new
skills and skills and increased
understanding of themselves and
others.

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1. Establishing Rapport and • The first step involves building a

relationship and focuses on engaging
Relationship clients to explore issue that directly
affect them.
• The first interview is important because
the client is reading the verbal and
nonverbal messages and make
inferences about the counselor and the
counseling situation.
• The counselor will introduce herself,
will invite the client to sit down, will
ensure client is comfortable, will invite
social conversation to reduce anxiety,
will watch for nonverbal behavior as
signs of client's emotional state, will
invite client to describe his/her reason

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for coming to talk and will allow the
client to respond.

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2. Assessing or defining of the

presenting problem

• While the counselor and the client are in the process

of establishing a relationship, a second process is
taking place

• Assessing the problem- this step involves the

collection and classification of information about
the client’s life situation and reasons for seeking
counseling

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3. Identifying and
setting goals

• Like any other activity, counseling must have a

focus.
• Goals are the results or outcomes that client
wants to achieve at the end of the counseling.
• Sometimes, you hear both counselor and client
complain that the counseling is going nowhere.
• This is where goals play an important role in
giving direction to the counseling process.

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4. Choosing and initiating • There are different points of

interventions view concerning what a good
counselor should do with
clients depending on the
theoretical positions that the
counselor subscribes to.

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5. Planning and introducing

termination and follow-up
• For beginning counselor, it is difficult to think of
terminating the counseling process, as they are more
concerned with beginning the counseling process
• However, all the counseling aims towards
successful termination.
• Terminating the counseling process will have to be

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conducted with sensitivity with the client knowing
that it will have to end.